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Written Answers — Department of Health: Pension Provisions (16 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commissions of Investigation (16 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Below is a table showing the total cost of each Commission of Investigation for the past twenty years. The figures are from the Department's Appropriation Accounts, which can be found at the following link: . Year of Appointment Total Cost at end 2023 Dunne Inquiry (Post Mortem) 2000 12,030,253 Commission on Assisted...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “That Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: "notes that: — this Government recently announced a record €25.8 billion budget for the delivery of health services in 2025, and this represents an increase of over 43 per cent from the €18.1 billion allocated in Budget 2020; — there has...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I misspoke. It is in quarter two.

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: There is no link between those two things.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: No, it has not. It has gone way up.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." This is an annual technical Bill regarding health insurance. However, there is a crucial difference this year in that I propose to make amendments to the Bill in the House in the coming hour or two which will create the legal framework for the provision of free hormone replacement therapy in Ireland for the first time. We are liberally...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Last year.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I am sure it is being looked at.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: What the Deputy is saying is entirely false.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputies for their support of the Bill, which is greatly appreciated. I look forward to going to Committee Stage. In the time I have, I will address some of the other issues that colleagues raised. Whether I should or not, I am going to start with the contribution of Deputy Boyd Barrett. I listened to probably five minutes of the misinformation that Deputy Boyd Barrett brought...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: He sets himself up as the champion of our healthcare workers and he says that no progress is being made towards universal healthcare or Sláintecare.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Our healthcare workers have halved the time that people wait for an outpatient appointment but Deputy Boyd Barrett says that is irrelevant. They have revolutionised women's healthcare but Deputy Boyd Barrett says that is irrelevant. They have brought in IVF and free contraception and are about to bring in free HRT, and they brought in specialist services in menopause and endometriosis, but...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Is it better across the board? It is not. Our healthcare workers have brought waiting times in this country down from over 13 months to seven months and we are going towards the agreed Sláintecare target that no one waits more than ten to 12 weeks but, apparently, that is irrelevant. Apparently according to Deputy Boyd Barrett, all of the progress that our healthcare workers are...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: -----to make things better and they are succeeding. That does not suit everybody. There are some people in this Chamber who want the public to believe we live in a failed state and that everything in healthcare is terrible. Everything in healthcare is not terrible. Things are getting better every year and every month. Are there parts of our healthcare service that do not work for...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: -----but just this week, after years of work, we were able to announce really important progress on children's spinal services. We were able to announce that this year, the number of children waiting more than four months will fall from 86 to 20. I fully accept that it is still 20 too many, but we have gone from 86 to 20 in one year and all 20 of them in consultation with their surgeons...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The improvements I am talking about have been achieved by our healthcare professionals and I acknowledge that. We rightly spend a lot of time talking about hospital-based care but look at what has happened in community-based care, again as called for under Sláintecare. My constituency does not have a big hospital. We do not have a model 3 or model 4 hospital but in my time, I have...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: Children who were referred to specialist care-----

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I appreciate that the Deputies do not like the truth.